MP Graham Jones has resigned from the front benches of the Labour Party in protest of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership victory.

Hyndburn MP Mr Jones, who was a shadow party whip, resigned moments after Mr Corbyn was declared victorious in the Labour leadership contest with a resounding 60 per cent of the vote.

Mr Corbyn received more than 251,000 of 422,000 votes.

Mr Jones said he could not serve under Mr Corbyn as he was from the ‘extreme left’ and did not hold Labour’s ‘true values’.

He said: “I was predicting a win for Jeremy but the extent of his victory was quite surprising. It is an anti politics vote.

“I had already made a decision last week that I would not serve under Jeremy. We see eye to eye on a number of issues but on others we are very different.

“I made the decision as I did not want to be tied to collective responsibility with Jeremy as leader.

“I am traditional Labour, and he is from the hard left of the party.”

Mr Jones added: “I think we are going into the unknown with Jeremy.

“He is a very popular and charismatic, plain speaking, sincere man, whether his policies are popular is another matter.

“I don’t think he espouses traditional Labour values, he would not have controls on immigration for example and his values around work, welfare and personal responsibility don’t think match up with mine.”

Prime Minister David Cameron took to Twitter to brand the Labour Party a ‘threat to national security’ with Mr Corbyn at the helm.

Mr Jones said he believed the Tories were ‘confused’ on how to approach his appointment.

He said: “They are all over the place, they can’t work out whether he is a hard line militant or a man of the people and don’t know how to react.”

Mr Jones said that the parallels being drawn between Mr Corbyn and Michael Foot, who went on to record one of Labour’s worst ever election defeats in 1983, were not wholly unfounded.

He said: “Jeremy is from the extreme left and he has a lot of people around him who are even more left wing, so you could look at his victory in light of Michael Foot being appointed in 1980.

“But I would emphasise that the future is unwritten, Jeremy has to build a broad support.”